--- James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The concept of an "expression" comes up within a lot
> of contexts.
> There are various ways to define/evaluate an
> expression, currently,
> but there's no standardized API way to deal with
> them. I was trying
> to come up with an API, but I don't know where it
> should belong.
> Should it be part of Lang, BeanUtils, or its own
> project. Here's the
> basic idea:
>
> public interface Expression
> {
> public Object getValue(Object rootObject);
> public void setValue(Object rootObject, Object
> value);
> }
>
> This is similar to the way OGNL thinks of things
> except they "compile"
> their expressions into some nebulous "tree" object
> (no API, just
> represented as an Object) and you then use the
> static methods on the
> Ognl class to get/set values using that tree. The
> way I see it, this
> interface could be implemented in a variety of ways
> (OGNL, MVEL,
> JSTL-EL, reflection, Javassist, etc.). So, what I'm
> looking for is a
> home. Where should something like this belong?
> Does it even belong
> in Commons at all, since it's a "framework" (it
> could be argued that
> Proxy is a framework much like this too, though)?
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> This idea came up when discussing the concept of
> "recording" this
> expression using proxied root objects (similar to
> how mock testing
> frameworks do it). I have the logic to record
> invoked methods using
> Commons Proxy, but I need a way to generate
> expression objects that I
> can then evaluate later.
>
I'm still hoping to bring Morph on board soon, and its
current codebase contains several facets including a
Language abstraction. I really think there's some
overlap there with [el], but another piece of Morph is
its Reflector APIs which are similar to BeanUtils'
DynaBean, and I'm thinking the Reflector APIs could go
far toward providing a useful abstraction to plug
arbitrary object types into expression evaluators.
-Matt
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